The migration path
It's important to remember that a migration is a journey. You are at point A with your existing
infrastructure and environments, and you want to reach point B. To get from A to B, you can choose any of
the options previously described.
The following diagram illustrates the path of this journey.
Migration path with four phases.
There are four phases of your migration:
1. Assess. In this phase, you perform a thorough assessment and discovery of your existing environment in
order to understand your app and environment inventory, identify app dependencies and requirements, perform
total cost of ownership calculations, and establish app performance benchmarks.
2. Plan. In this phase, you create the basic cloud infrastructure for your workloads to live in and
plan how you will move apps. This planning includes identity management, organization and project structure,
networking, sorting your apps, and developing a prioritized migration strategy.
3. Deploy. In this phase, you design, implement and execute a deployment process to move workloads to
Google Cloud. You might also have to refine your cloud infrastructure to deal with new needs.
4. Optimize. In this phase, you begin to take full advantage of cloud-native technologies and
capabilities to expand your business's potential to things such as performance, scalability, disaster
recovery, costs, training, as well as opening the doors to machine learning and artificial intelligence
integrations for your app.
Managing data protection for Google Cloud is fundamentally different than in a traditional, on-premises data
center model.
As organizations migrate data from on-prem to public cloud infrastructure, you need to assess the right
approach, how best to manage and protect data and align to a true multi-cloud data protection strategy. For
many, that starts with migrating mission-critical data and applications. This makes the importance of
choosing the most effective Backup as a Service solution over legacy and manual deployment options
essential.
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